Automaton with music box, depicting castle scene with moving windmill, water wheel, soldiers on turret and horse back and rocking ship. The scene is enclosed in a background painted large oval dome, c1875 — Antique Clocks Price Guide

Name: Automaton with music box, depicting castle scene with moving windmill, water wheel, soldiers on turret and horse back and rocking ship. The scene is enclosed in a background painted large oval dome, c1875
Brand: Unsigned
Price: 750 USD
Availability: Discontinued

Shelf or Mantel Unsigned Switzerland auction

Price Record

Sale date October 29, 2011

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Maker Unsigned
Type Shelf or Mantel
Country Switzerland
Price type auction
Date October 29, 2011
Source R. O. Schmitt Fine Arts

Description

the piece is in overall good original condition with several figures detached but present. There is a selection of two tunes, probably Swiss, a nice hand finished mechanism playing Les Sirenes Waltz and Aida March. Ht 23" to top of dome

Record courtesy of R. O. Schmitt Fine Arts